Women and Landscape in Wuthering Heights

While many critics discuss Catherine as being representative of nature and her daughter Cathy in terms of culture, this paper shows that Brontë stages much of young Cathy's coming of age outdoors in nature. The scenes of Cathy's development reveal a constant tension between the domestic and safe parks of Thrushcross Grange and the wild, sexualized moorland. Ultimately, it is Cathy's ability to unite nature and culture or the domestic and wild in a way her mother could not that allows for the daughter's more traditional happy ending.